A: Assume you have total 16 bit to represent a floating point number. Out of 16 bit msb is sign bit, next 4 bits are reserved for exponent, and rests of the bits are reserved for mantissa.

Assuming floating point format as state above, convert the following to 16 bit floating point number in normalized biased exponent binary representation:

256

-8.123

B. Convert 1.125 into following

1. base 4 number

2. IEEE 754 floating point representation